Posted on 05/13/2019 6:06:08 PM PDT by Coleus
I woke up the other day and checked my messages. The first was from the most right-wing member of the state Senate. “Trump needs to rein in Captain Kangaroo and Mike Plumpeo,” read the message from Mike Doherty of Warrren County. “They are out of control.”
The first reference is to John Bolton, the comic character with the white mustache. He got the job as President Trump’s national security adviser despite opposing the president on virtually every aspect of his “America First” foreign policy.
The second reference is to Mike Pompeo, the somewhat portly secretary of state who is, like Doherty, a graduate of West Point and former Army officer.
The two Republicans part company when it comes to Trump and his foreign policy. Doherty was one of Trump’s earliest backers. He backed The Donald primarily because of his promise to keep the U.S. out of regime-change wars of the type embraced by the Beltway establishment.
As for Pompeo, in the 2016 presidential primaries he supported Florida Senator Marco Rubio. Rubio is one of the strongest proponents of the so-called “neoconservative” foreign policy that led to the loss of thousands of American lives and trillions of taxpayer dollars.
Trump remarked on the folly of that foreign policy over and over in the campaign. During one debate, he told former Florida governor Jeb Bush that ”it was your brother's Iraq War that gave us Barack Obama.”
That may have shocked the GOP establishment. But it didn’t shock GOP primary voters. Soon Bush was headed back to Florida and Trump was headed to the White House. If he wants to stay there, he would be wise to follow his own advice on avoiding wars. That’s so obvious that even the house organ of the Washington establishment is picking it up.
(Excerpt) Read more at nj.com ...
Trump needs to get rid of the war-mongering walrus.
What utter bull $hit.
who would take someone serious when they start with Captain Kangaroo?
Trump is greatly improving his influence and negotiating position by putting a credible threat of war on the table.
Why the hell would Donald Trump ever put someone in a position like that who probably would have been the U.S. Secretary of State right now if Jeb Bush or Mitt Romney was president??
If I wanted a Sunni Muslim in the White House who was owned by the Saudi royal family, I would have voted for Jeb Bush.
Mister Greenjeans.
On the contrary, I think Bolton and Pompeo have served the president well. With all the chaos going on in the Middle East (as always) who didn’t think the Iranians would not try to start something over there?
After all, a degree in journalism (available on the back of your Cheerios box) allows one to criticize folks with actual experience in dealing with real world situations.
Yeah, the Iranians are starting trouble in the Straits of Tonkin. The intel community said so. They said it’s “sabotage”.
I'm sure President Trump knows the deal here. If he makes decisions about military affairs based on the advice of some @sshole who has been a big-government globalist for more than two decades, then his support among some of his strongest supporters will be at risk.
I’d be very disappointed if there’s still a single Freeper left who would believe anything presented from “the intel community.”
Paul Mullahs-Shine (piss be upon him) bin Jersey Shore?
Never heard of him.
Stole my line didn’t ya. That’s OK the more people using it the better.
Unfortunately there’s a few, and a few more itching for more war.
Good article, sounds like some bad people want Trump mired in a new war that can only be blamed on him.
I like it!
It amazes me how many people are beating the war drum based on nothing but the word of the intel community, the Saudis and Mossad.
They don’t even bother to tell us or prove what the “sabotage” is. It’s just “sabotage”, and “trust me”.
I’m glad Bolton and Pompeo are there to advise Trump. Two brilliant minds. He should listen to all the opinions put forth by his advisers, and then make the best informed opinion and decision that he can, as the buck stops with him. Would you have preferred Rex what was his name, or john Kelly, a couple of RINO’s, to still be there?
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